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Every Saturday Religion News Blog highlights 5 religion news stories posted during the week.

We include some extra comments, resources and opinions -- and we invite readers to comment as well.

 

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A Nebraska court won't consider a death row inmate's appeal raising questions about the state's new lethal injection method and how the drugs needed for it were obtained.

Cult leader Michael Ryan was sentenced to death for the torture death of one of his followers, and the beating death of the 5-year old son of another cult member.

 

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A couple have been found guilty of murdering a teenager they had accused of using witchcraft.

After days of 'feral' torture Kristy Bamu drowned in a bath on Christmas Day in 2010, during torture to produce exorcism, an Old Bailey jury heard.

 

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A Dutch religious broadcaster has condensed the books of into 20 minutes worth of film.

The makers believe this a good way to introduce today's digital generation to the message of the Bible. Not everyone agrees.

 

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While a Ugandan pastor was fighting to retain sight in his remaining eye after an acid attack, Muslim extremists this month were shooting at his close friend, a leader of another church.

Doctors at Sheba Hospital in Tel-Aviv, Israel, are still not sure what kind of chemicals Muslim extremists cast on Bishop Umar Mulinde of Gospel Life Church International outside of Kampala last Christmas Eve, but they know that the acid is threatening the vision in his remaining eye.

 

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A man claims that the Trinity Broadcasting Network -- the world's largest Christian TV network -- wrongfully sued him over inexistent contracts, to retaliate after his nephew's wife "uncovered and reported illegal distributions and other unlawful self-dealing by Trinity Broadcasting's directors exceeding $50 million."

The suit includes allegations of multiple cover-ups of sexual and criminal scandals.

 

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